2014 Phonics Workshop

Phonics What is Phonics? We use a high quality phonics programme called Letters and Sounds along with Jolly Phonics actions. Focuses on speaking and listening skills A fun and interactive way to learn the skills to help us read and write A 6 phase teaching programme taught from Foundation Stage

Phonics at Parochial 20 minutes 4 days a week Small groups Revisit throughout the day Fun, engaging, hands on

Letters and Sounds Phase 1 (Nursery) – Have fun with sounds – Listen carefully – Develop their vocabulary – Speak confidently to you, other adults and children – Tune into sounds (animals, traffic etc.). – Listen and remember and talk about sounds

Letters and Sounds Phase 1 is made up of 7 different areas: – Environmental sounds – Instrumental sounds – Body percussion – Rhythm and rhyme – Alliteration (words that begin with the same sound) – Voice sounds – Oral blending and segmenting

How can you help? Play ‘What do we have in here?’ Put some toys or objects in a bag and pull one out at a time. Emphasise the first sound of the name of the toy or object by repeating it, for example, ‘c c c c – car’, ‘b b b b – box’, ‘ch ch ch ch – chip’. Find real objects around your home that have three phonemes (sounds) and practise ‘sound talk’. First, just let them listen, then see if they will join in, for example, saying: ‘I spy a p-e-g – peg.’ ‘I spy a c-u-p – cup.’ ‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’ ‘Simon says – put your hands on your h-ea-d.’ ‘Simon says – touch your ch-i-n.’ ‘Simon says – pick up your b-a-g.’

Letters and Sounds Phase 2 (Reception) By now the children will have had a lot of practical experiences of speaking and listening activities. It is at this stage that we start to teach the children the letter sounds (not names) and what they look like. Within this phase we teach 19 letters, 4 per week and move the children on from oral blending and segmenting to blending and segmenting with letters.

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Letters and Sounds By the end of this phase most children will be able to read simple words it, is, at, sat, pat, pin. Within this phase we use magnetic or paper letters to spell words and slowly move onto writing them. The children will also be taught how to read some tricky words which we cannot blend and segment i.e. the, to, go, no. Towards the end of this phase we introduce the children to sounds that have 2 letters in i.e. ‘ck’ – duck, luck ‘ll’ – full, ‘ff’ – fluff, ‘ss’ – hiss The above sounds are called di-graphs

Letters and Sounds Phase 3 (Reception) The children by now will know all 19 letters from phase 2 and be able to blend the phonemes (sounds) to read and segment to spell. All children should be able to blend and segment words orally. In this phase we teach another 25 graphemes, most of which have two letters i.e. oa, ee We continue to practise blending and segmenting to read and spell. Within this phase we will start to learn letter names.

Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Learning more tricky words and also learning how to spell them. The new graphemes are ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, and ur. Within this phase we also look at reading two syllable words e.g. car park, cobweb, farmyard.

Letters and Sounds Phase 4 (Consolidation of Phase 2 and 3) By this stage the children will be able to represent each of the 42 sounds by a grapheme (letter). They will be able to blend and segment words for reading and spelling. They will have experience of reading two syllable words. They will know the letter names and be able to read and spell some tricky words. Within this phase we consolidate the children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading and spelling words.

Letters and Sounds Phase 4, 5, 6 (Year 1 and 2) Consolidation work from the first 3 phases. Learning to read and spell ccvc and cvcc words. Learning to read and spell the tricky words Assessment At the end of each phase we assess the children's learning so we are able to plan there next steps and identify areas that we need to concentrate on. Children also sit a Government screening at the end of Year 1.

How can you help? Making little words together - Make little words together, for example, it, up, am, and, top, dig, run, met, pick. As you select the letters, say them aloud: ‘a-m – am’, ‘m-e-t – met’. Breaking words up - Now do it the other way around: read the word, break the word up and move the letters away, saying: ‘met – m-e-t ’. Games -

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